What does it mean to say, "I love my country"?
a maple leaf from eastern Canada I love my car I love our cat I love my country I love my partner I love my parents I love my country I love your garden I love their goldfish I love my country I love his hair I love your house I love my country Is all this love — this loving things — the same? Equal? Worthy of the word? Hmmmmmm…. Throwing love around is easy when it’s just a word… but put into action and what does it actual ly mean? We hear “I love my country” a lot from politicians, especially these days with politics far and near being what they are — fractious, divisive, often snappy, sometimes scary. What do the politicians mean? That they love the people and the animals and the nature within the man-drawn boundaries of the geography they call country? That they will protect them with their heart , their head and their work ? That they love the opportunities a particular geographic place has given them? That they would march to the border and protect everything — and ...